Hunting or shooting garment.



FRED P ETMECKY, OF AUSTIN, TEXAS.

HUNTING OR SHOOTING GARNIENT.

Specication of Letters Patent.

Patented April 2, 1907.

Application filed November 6. 1906. Serial No. 342.233.

T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED PETMECKY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Austin, in the county of Travis and State of Texas, have invented a new and Improved Hunting or Shooting Garment, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved coat, sweater, or like hunting or shooting garment for the use of hunters, marksmen, and other persons and arranged to take up and absorb the recoil of the gun, rifle, or like rearm and to form a cushion Afor protecting the users shoulders against abrasion when carrying a firearm over the shoulder.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, which will be more fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claim.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in both views.

Figure l is a perspective view of the improvement as applied, and Fig. 2 is a transverse section of the improvement.

The recoil pad or cushion A, as shown in the drawings, is attached to the inside of the hunters or shooters sweater, coat, or like garment, the pad or cushion being located at a point directly opposite the resting-place of the butt of the gun, riiie, or like firearm used by the wearer of the garment, as will be readily understood by reference to Fig. 2, so that when the firearm is fired from the shoulder the recoil thereof is taken up or absorbed,

4o and hence the hunters or shooters shoulder and upper chest portions are protected against the violent kicking of the firearm. The pad or cushion A extends sufficiently far up onto the to of the shoulder, so that when the gun or ot er firearm is carried over the shoulder it protects the wearers shoulder from abrasion.

The pad A may be made of rubber, felt, hair, or other soft material having a cushioning effect, and the pad A may be sewed or otherwise permanently secured to the inside of the garment, but is preferably detachably secured to the garment by the use of suitable fastening devices C, such as the spring buttons and sockets indicated in Fig. 2.

The bodyA shown is made of rubber, having air-spaces, so as to be sufficiently elastic to readily take up the recoil of the gun, rifle, or other firearm. By having the pad or cushion A forming a part of the garment it is evident that it is always in the proper place and not liable to slip out of position when the gun or rifle or other firearm is discharged.

Having thus described my invention, Il

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent- The combination with the shooting-coat, of a resilient pad detachably secured to the inner surface thereof, said pad being arranged in front of the shoulder for absorbing the recoil of a firearm, and over the shoulder for preventing abrasion of the shoulder by the carriage of said firearm.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

FRED PETMECKY. Witnesses:

PAUL H. SMITH, Mums F. BYRNE. 

